Notice2025-20968
Certificate of Alternate Compliance for the USS TED STEVENS (DDG 128)
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Published
November 25, 2025
Effective
November 25, 2025
Issuing agencies
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Abstract
The U.S. Navy hereby announces that a Certificate of Alternate Compliance has been issued for USS TED STEVENS (DDG 128). Due to the special construction and purpose of this vessel, the Admiralty Counsel of the Navy has determined it is a vessel of the Navy which, due to its special construction and purpose, cannot comply fully with the navigation lights provisions of the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea, 1972 (72 COLREGS) without interfering with its special function as a naval ship. The intended effect of this notice is to warn mariners in waters where 72 COLREGS apply.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 225 (Tuesday, November 25, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 53277-53278]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-20968]
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Department of the Navy
Certificate of Alternate Compliance for the USS TED STEVENS (DDG
128)
AGENCY: Department of the Navy, Department of Defense.
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ACTION: Notice of issuance of Certificate of Alternate Compliance.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Navy hereby announces that a Certificate of Alternate
Compliance has been issued for USS TED STEVENS (DDG 128). Due to the
special construction and purpose of this vessel, the Admiralty Counsel
of the Navy has determined it is a vessel of the Navy which, due to its
special construction and purpose, cannot comply fully with the
navigation lights provisions of the International Regulations for
Preventing Collisions at Sea, 1972 (72 COLREGS) without interfering
with its special function as a naval ship. The intended effect of this
notice is to warn mariners in waters where 72 COLREGS apply.
DATES: This Certificate of Alternate Compliance is effective November
25, 2025 and is applicable beginning June 9, 2025.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Lieutenant Commander Jeffrey M.
Larson, JAGC, U.S. Navy, Admiralty Attorney, Office of the Judge
Advocate General, Admiralty and Claims Division (Code 15A), 1322
Patterson Ave. SE, Suite 3000, Washington Navy Yard, DC 20374-5066,
202-685-5040, or <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#86e9ece7e1e5e9e2e3b7b3e7e2ebeff4e7eaf2ffc6f3f5a8e8e7f0ffa8ebefea"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="492623282e2a262d2c787c282d24203b28253d30093c3a6727283f3067242025">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background and Purpose. Executive Order (E.O.) 11964 (42 FR 4327;
January 19, 1977) and 33 U.S.C. 1605 provide that the requirements of
the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea, 1972
(72 COLREGS), as to the number, position, range, or arc of visibility
of lights or shapes, as well as to the disposition and characteristics
of sound-signaling appliances, shall not apply to a vessel or class of
vessels of the Navy where the Secretary of the Navy shall find and
certify that, by reason of special construction or purpose, it is not
possible for such vessel(s) to comply fully with the provisions without
interfering with the special function of the vessel(s). Notice of
issuance of a Certificate of Alternate Compliance must be made in the
Federal Register.
In accordance with 33 U.S.C. 1605, the Admiralty Counsel of the
Navy, under authority delegated by the Secretary of the Navy, hereby
finds and certifies that USS Ted Stevens (DDG 128) is a vessel of
special construction or purpose, and that, with respect to the position
of the following navigational lights, it is not possible to comply
fully with the requirements of the provisions enumerated in the 72
COLREGS without interfering with the special function of the vessel:
Annex I, paragraph 3(a), pertaining to the position of the forward
masthead light; Annex I, paragraph 2(f)(i) pertaining to the vertical
position of the aft masthead light; Annex I, paragraph 3(a), pertaining
to the horizontal distance between the masthead lights; Annex I,
paragraph 3(c), pertaining to the horizontal distance of the ``task
lights'' below the masthead lights; Annex I, paragraph 2(f)(ii),
pertaining to the horizontal position of the task lights above the aft
masthead light(s) and vertical position of the task lights between the
forward masthead light(s) and aft masthead light(s).
The Admiralty Counsel of the Navy further finds and certifies that
these navigational lights are in closest possible compliance with the
applicable provision of the 72 COLREGS.
Authority: 33 U.S.C. 1605(c), E.O. 11964.
Approved: November 21, 2025.
A.R. DeMaio,
Lieutenant Commander, Judge Advocate General's Corps, U.S. Navy,
Federal Register Liaison Officer.
[FR Doc. 2025-20968 Filed 11-24-25; 8:45 am]
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